I'm not sure if I meet the requirements of "doesn't have an easy option to get a camera themselves", but that's a matter of the definition of easy.

I've killed myself for years working online because I live in a place where there are no jobs for someone in my field. Despite people saying steemit isn't something good to rely on for income, it's actually the most promising thing I've had for a while to actually get me out of the place I'm living. I've been trying to save up for years to leave, and every time I'm close, something happens that fucks me over and I'm back to square one.

I live in the middle of nowhere, in shitty suburbs, most of my money going to survive in a country where inflation is absolutely insane, and it costs as much to barely squeak by as it does to live a very comfortable existence in many other countries. Income for the majority of jobs isn't proportionally high, however. People in other countries don't seem to understand how you can sit in front of a TV in a nice house, and yet barely have enough for food sometimes.

I'm not destitute. I'm still living, one day at a time. But I don't make enough I can comfortably afford healthcare. I haven't been to a doctor in over 10 years, and honestly, I need to. I don't want to go into why though.

So, here I am, on steemit, putting everything I have into writing, without really wanting to put a bunch of info about myself on the blockchain. Then I take that money, and I put it into my bittrex, and I trade it back and forth, making more and more, and trying to make enough that I can leave.

Before I leave, I feel like I need a camera. I want to document my journey...both for myself and for steemit. Maybe posts with nice photos aren't any more likely to earn than anything else, but it will provide me more content to produce crypto to trade with.

I've always liked taking photos, and I always take extreme effort to frame the shot perfectly. I've been told I take good photos, but honestly, I don't really know. Getting a real camera is a chance to learn just how good I am though, and share my view of the different places I go to with steemit and the world.

I will then use the money I get from those posts to trade cryptocurrencies, as I have been doing, and make enough to live on, and find a place I can be happy. Maybe I'll even eventually make enough that I can start a business or two, and eventually make enough to make my dream of truly changing the world come true. Such a dream will cost more than any Lambo.

So, I can get a camera, and I'm raising the money to do so, but it's not easy. I trade all day, every day, post when I can, and take jobs on the side, all in an effort to get enough to get what I need to get out of this hellhole. If you choose me for the winner of your contest, it will mean that I can leave sooner, and that I can put whatever money I would have spent on a camera body into lenses, and my plane ticket. When I eventually want to upgrade, I'll pay it forward, and find someone else deserving of the camera body next.

I've put more out there about myself in this comment than I am truly comfortable with, so I do hope you pick me, but if you don't, I understand, and I will still get a camera, and still put my everything every day into steemit and trading, so I can pursue my dreams.

So what does photography mean to me? It means not just framing the world and expressing myself through the photos I take, but the possibility for a leg up in my fight to get to a place where I don't feel like I'm living one day at a time.